It was good, but I thought Nier was better. I bought the Japanese version last year, so I put them in the same year. This year's best JRPG for me... I dunno... haven't played anything good released this year from the JRPG side. Probably my wife's favourite will win: Dragon Quest Builders 2 :)

That being said, I loved the characters in DQXI and would buy the next game on release as well. I just would have hoped to have a little bit more meaningful exploration and a more expansive world-map like in Souls games (semi-open world)

@Tapani "I think Nier could be very well compared to a traditional JRPG. Just as much as Tales series are traditional JRPGs, so are Nier and Drakengard games."

No offense, dude, but that is just silly. Nier, Drakenguard, and Tales series are action RPGs. Its a completely different sub genre than traditional turn based and ATB JRPGs. Its impossible to get a traditional JRPG fix from action RPGs, whether they are made in Japan or not.

And? It sold 3 million in the same time frame in Japan. Not only that. There are more PS4 users out there in the west WAY WAY more than Japan. It was marketed well too. But still couldn't reach 1 million.

@Felix_Argyle_Catbro By that logic. Monster Hunter World shouldn't have sold more in the west than it did in Japan. Yakuza shouldn't have sold around the same or more than it did in Japan. I can list more.

DJ is just mad the Switch version isn’t out yet, and that the game is even offered on PS4 (it’s like blasphemy to him). He complains about how other people want Sony to have a “monopoly” for JRPGs, but will HAPPILY boast about exclusive Nintendo JRPGs. What a damn hypocrite.

They are still getting DQ11 on Switch, so he needs to settle the hell down.

Not horrible. Ni no Kuni 2 which has a decent name outside Japan Didn't sell a million outside Japan and it has the same PS4 and Steam release. It's actually pretty good. Especially with the time it came out. With Spiderman, Tomb Raider Etc. I bought it over both, but most won't outside Japan Note: I'm sure with digital sales on PS4 and Steam it definitely is probably more closer to 1.2-1.5 mill. But I mean in a 2 month period. It was like 900k I believe and that's with Japan as well since it was a WW release

Overreacting? How? all I said terrible sales in the west. a little over 600K and 3.4 million from Japan that is not overreacting. That facts. Yall just can't accept it. It yall who overreacting and getting defensive.

Terrible sales is a matter of perspective. 600K for a popular, yet less well known JRPG in the west is pretty respectable.

You have to put things in perspective to decide on if they're good or bad. The perspective here would be that that's around $35+ million in revenue, which is pretty good to make sure that the game continues to get support in the west, and likely we'll see more titles in the future.

You do realize Dragon Quest is RIDICULOUSLY popular over in Japan? It's almost practically worshiped over there. These are expected numbers for the West. You are a fool if you expected the West to have ANYWHERE close to those numbers in Japan.

First read the comment and second I played Dragon Quest 4-9 and know its popularity. I only commented on western sales on it being over 600k. That terrible for the simple fact of PS4 and Steam userbase in the west. Of vourse majority came from the PS4. I never said anything about it sell near Japan numbers. But it had the potential to but people only cared for Spider Man.

Again, we know JRPG isn’t going to sell a lot in west. But 4 million units sold is impressive and it does. It did marketing well. You called us being defensive and overreacting. Well, you should reconsider your thought.

Umm that's not terrible at all. You're missing the point. Dragon Quest is niche in the West. NICHE. You're basically comparing West numbers to Japan numbers and calling it terrible.

Install base in the West has nothing to with it. With that logic every game has terrible sales in the West.

And why are you comparing it to Spider Man? Something that's MAINSTREAM? Of course that game was gonna destroy DQ in sales. It SHOULD. I don't think you understand the difference between niche and mainstream.

Put 100 hours into this and enjoyed every minute. And I never beat long rpgs like this but I've completed 2 of the 3 endings. This is easily a GotY contender, but obviously not enough recognition to make it a contender. God of War is top game for the year, but I wouldn't classify them in the same genre so DQ11 takes 2018 top RPG vote from me.

Dragon Quest XI seems to be selling about on par with Dragon Quest IX which can be good or bad depending on how you look at it, XI is on 3 platforms (soon to be 4) with the publishers having intentions to make this a big game for western audiences but IX was just on 1 platform with not as much marketing compared to XI.